PySide6 Library Manager

A modern desktop application for managing your personal library with advanced features like ISBN barcode scanning and automatic book data fetching.

Features

• 📚 Book Management: Add, edit, delete, and search books
• 📷 Barcode Scanning: Scan ISBN barcodes using your computer's camera
• 🌐 Auto Data Fetching: Automatically fetch book details from Amazon using ISBN
• 🔍 Search Functionality: Search books by title, author, publisher, or ISBN
• 💾 Local Storage: Store all data locally in JSON format
• 🎨 Modern UI: Clean and intuitive PySide6-based interface

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/pyside6-library-manager.git
cd pyside6-library-manager

2. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the application:

python main.py

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• Webcam (for barcode scanning)
• Internet connection (for book data fetching)

Dependencies

• PySide6: Modern Qt framework for Python
• OpenCV: Computer vision for camera operations
• pyzbar: Barcode detection and decoding
• requests: HTTP requests for web scraping
• BeautifulSoup4: HTML parsing
• isbnlib: ISBN validation and conversion

Usage

1. Adding Books: Click "Add Book" and either manually enter details or scan an ISBN barcode
2. Scanning Barcodes: Use the camera to scan ISBN barcodes for automatic data entry
3. Searching: Use the search bar to find books by various criteria
4. Editing: Select a book and click "Edit" to modify details
5. Viewing Details: Double-click a book to see full details

Project Structure

pyside6-library-manager/
├── main.py              # Main application file
├── data/                # Data storage directory
│   └── books.json       # Book database
├── requirements.txt     # Python dependencies
├── README.md           # This file
└── .gitignore          # Git ignore rules

Development Status

• Create UI for initial setup
• Create QTableView
• Add manual book entry functionality
• Write a class for JSON operations
• Implement book addition, editing and deletion operations using this class
• Write book add and edit dialogs
• Fetch book data from Amazon using ISBN
• Implement scraping operations with QRunnable & QThreadPool (ScraperWorker)
• Add search book functionality
• Implement camera-based ISBN barcode scanning with OpenCV
• Add CameraWorker thread for real-time camera processing
• Integrate barcode detection using pyzbar library
• Replace pyisbn with isbnlib for better ISBN validation and conversion
• Add automatic ISBN input from camera scan to form fields
• Implement thread-safe camera start/stop functionality
• Add camera status monitoring and error handling

Contributing

Feel free to submit issues and enhancement requests!

License

This project is open source and available under the MIT License.